The death of a student. Vichy France. World War II. Hitler. A boy not quite yet a man on the edge of a chasm, and the young woman who witnesses it all. A Tom/Minerva story. Beautiful banner by Alora at TDA.

Written for the May 2009 Staff Challenge. Gorgeous banner by Violet at TDA!
The night is dark, lives forsaken. Lies rest in every corner. The death of Albus Dumbledore shrouds the world in fright. The stars are alight with cruel fire. Voldemort's rise is nigh. For Alecto Carrow, worlds collide in a in a perfect dance of symmetrical geometry that is yet unparalleled. But the cracks in Alecto's mind are starting to show through. Tonight, her victim will not survive

If there was one thing that Rose Weasley could have told anyone about her life, it would have been that she had never been known as Rose to anyone but her family. To everyone else, she showed a mask, a cover, a smiling feature that hid the ugliness of the beauty of her name. No one ever saw who she really was. And that is precisely why, when she fell, she had no one to turn to.

On vacation in Spain, an awkward and jaded Sirius is immediately pulled in by the charms of a streetwise gypsy. She had no name, no identity. A mystery shrouded in yet another. Layer by layer. Barely a woman, more a thief. It was only she, alone and indomitable, who could claim to have captured Sirius Black's heart. Yet how could Sirius manage to tame such a lioness?

I was tired. My whole life, I'd been following what they call a noble cause. Hunting villains. Stopping evil. They called for a hero - for a hero to delve into the past and reshape the future of one woman. But all I ever wanted was to close my eyes and will the evil away. And it was that they failed to see.

A man is not old until regret takes the place of dreams. I was getting there, bit by bit.

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She was his everything. His identity, his essence. He wouldn't have even bothered trying to save this world if she wasn't there, because what good would a world without her be? But she's gone. Everything cruelly ripped away. If the one person you loved was taken away, what reason is there to live anymore?